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Northern Song capital and commercial metropolis. Substantial Jewish presence that persisted until the late Qing Empire. Notably, Matteo Ricci established relations with this community to assist in his search for an ancient Christian presence in China.4

Names

  • Bian1, 2
  • Kaifeng1, 3
  • 东京5
  • 开封5
  • 東京5
  • 東京5
  • 開封市5
  • 開封市5

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.8009771000° Long. 114.3464756000°1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ian Mladjov, Diachronic Maps of Syriac Cultures and Their Geographic Contexts, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King and David A. Michelson (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), xxvii–xxxiii, map 1–14, map: 11. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 2 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 826. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 3 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 828. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 4 Matteo Nicolini-Zani, The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China, trans. William Skudlarek (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), chapter: 1.3p: 190, footnote 37. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q208471, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q208471